Anyone a nut & bolt guru?

Skrappy

Skrappy

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Well my water cooling reservoir for my gaming PC sprung a leak a week or so ago. It is an XSPC reservoir still under mfr. warranty, BUT, they aren't returning my emails.

The problem is a small acrylic bolt. The head of the bolt has broken off causing the seal it had to allow water to leak out(it functions as a plug for the acrylic reservoir.

So I have looked far and wide at every hardware store, website, and all the specialty bolt sites I could find, with no luck in finding what I need, in any material. To make matters more difficult, neither my local Lowes nor ACE have a thread guage(why the fk would you not have a thread guage in your bolt department?), so I am not 100% on the pitch.

What I can say is it is a 7/16(11mm). The pitch is either 18 or 16(1.5 or 1.75) Does anyone happen to have a bolt of either of these sizes or know where I can find/order one? The length of the shaft needs to be a minimum of 8mm, if it is longer I'll cut it to length myself, but it needs to be threaded to the head and it has to be a water proof material(aluminum, acrylic, stainless steal...). And any type of head works as long as it has a flush bottom(has to hold down and seal the O-ring).

Any help with finding a replacement is supper appreciated. Gaming is how I make my money so I have essentially been out of work for a week now.
 
charleshardy5

charleshardy5

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Skrappy;336722 said:
Well my water cooling reservoir for my gaming PC sprung a leak a week or so ago. It is an XSPC reservoir still under mfr. warranty, BUT, they aren't returning my emails.

The problem is a small acrylic bolt. The head of the bolt has broken off causing the seal it had to allow water to leak out(it functions as a plug for the acrylic reservoir.

So I have looked far and wide at every hardware store, website, and all the specialty bolt sites I could find, with no luck in finding what I need, in any material. To make matters more difficult, neither my local Lowes nor ACE have a thread guage(why the fk would you not have a thread guage in your bolt department?), so I am not 100% on the pitch.

What I can say is it is a 7/16(11mm). The pitch is either 18 or 16(1.5 or 1.75) Does anyone happen to have a bolt of either of these sizes or know where I can find/order one? The length of the shaft needs to be a minimum of 8mm, if it is longer I'll cut it to length myself, but it needs to be threaded to the head and it has to be a water proof material(aluminum, acrylic, stainless steal...). And any type of head works as long as it has a flush bottom(has to hold down and seal the O-ring).

Any help with finding a replacement is supper appreciated. Gaming is how I make my money so I have essentially been out of work for a week now.
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Might be you find someone with access to a 3d printer.

On a side note and not to completely thread jack I'm curious how it is you make mullah playing games... Dev, Tester, Engineer, pro gaming circuit?
 
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Highway66

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I would try McMaster.com, just type "bolt" in the search, choose the basic type of bolt then use the menus on the left to narrow it down.
look like 7/16 comes in 14, 20, 24 tpi
 
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Skrappy

Skrappy

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Well tbh what I do is technically against the terms and services of just about every game I do it with. But I have a fondness for mmo games that usually makes me level faster than most people, so I just rage games and sell the accounts, or in some cases I will grind for rare items and sell those. I am by no means making bank(about $7 an hour avrg) but the plus side of it is I can work when I want on what I want and I don't have any bosses.

And that is a good idea about the 3D printer.
Does someone have a 3D printer that can do this? I don't know **** about 3D printers and their accuracy. And if so how much would it cost me to have one of these guys printed out?
 
Skrappy

Skrappy

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Ty for the effort Highway66. Unfortunately they do not carry Uncommon(specialty) sizes.

I may not be sure if it is an 18 or 16 but I am 100% positive it is not a 20 or 14. I compared it to my tap set but the biggest I have is an 18 and although it lines up to look ALMOST perfect with the 18 I don't have a 16 tap to compare it to, my bolt only has 4 threads, and I don't have a thread gauge. Also I am pretty sure it is metric, an 11mm is the same as a 7/16 but I think metric and US thread pitch is ever so slightly diffrent.
 
Skrappy

Skrappy

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Ty FishTV. Unfortunately they only seem to carry G1/4 fittings. XSPC doesnt even have this plug as a replacement part on their products catalog. I would have just used a soda bottle as a replacement reservoir, but my reservoir is also the pump so I cannot do this. And thanks to christmas I am now working with my last $20, or I would have just bought a new res and pump. I'm trying to not make any changes to the reservoir so that if they do finally return my emails I can have them replace it free of charge. But if I go another week without my computer I will be forced to improvise and I will be looking for someone with some acrylic sealer to just essentially put a patch on the hole(this will void the warranty for sure).
 
Skrappy

Skrappy

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thanks xsocali. they don't have it either but their website says they can get/make it if they don't, just doesn't mention what the minimum order is, and they are closed all weekend. grrr
 
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